Prairie Avenue Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from 19th-Century Chicago Families

by Carol Callahan

Book Overview

This enchanting cookbook by Carol Callahan allows us to reverse time and transcend space in order to enter a period and place in American history when confidence abounded and all things seemed possible and some Chicago families were able to live in a manner never to be equaled. Judge for yourself. The thirty-five illustrations that accompany the text document what a grand life-style it was.

"If you want to see the richest half-dozen blocks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809318156
• ISBN13: 9780809318155
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 10.0"